Train travel through Italy is so simple! The train ticket can be purchased at a kiosk in the train station. They even have multiple languages to choose from. Our train to Pisa was not a direct route; we had to switch trains in Florence. We arrived in Florence just in time to catch a train that was leaving in ten minutes. We purchased our tickets from the kiosk in record timing and looked at the departure board for the platform number our train was leaving from, except we couldn't find it. Zach asked one of the workers who told us it was platform three. By this time, we had less than five minutes to get on that train. We were rushing past people trying to find platform three, which was at the opposite end of the station, of course. We finally found it and boarded the train just in time! Only we forgot to validate our tickets. The train attendant came by asking for our tickets, so we handed them over. She was apparently having the worst day of her life, because she was not a happy camper. She asked us why the tickets weren't validated, to which we replied that we didn't know we had to. She said, "It's going to be five Euro each. I'll be right back." She angrily walked off and returned moments later with our now validated tickets and stuck her hand out for our money. We paid up and never saw her again.
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